Example sentences of "[noun sg] but [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Louise was French and luscious , as every male in the district between the ages of fourteen and eighty-four would testify — most from wishful thinking but quite a number from experience . |
| 2 | The base split from side to side but fortunately the water only seeped out . |
| 3 | McLeish , more sharply than he had meant , pointed out that he had a girlfriend but not a wife . |
| 4 | This means you have two choices to make — not only a suitable colour for the mounting card but also the background to go with it . |
| 5 | Bolinger ( 1974 : 86-7 ) seems to side with Palmer and Higgenbotham , for he maintains that the to infinitive evokes not a perception but rather a fact : The passive tends to be used in situations where the interest is not in perceptions but in impersonal facts — for example , in the testimony of a witness who says He was seen to stoop over and pick up some object , and then stuff it in his pocket . |
| 6 | Likewise in ( 36 ) saw evokes not mere visual perception but rather an inference which the speaker has drawn about the character of the people in question on the basis of what he has been able to observe of their behaviour or even of their appearance , and so could be said by someone who had only seen a photograph of them . |
| 7 | The proposed cuts had led to talk of its closure but today a reprieve was announced . |
| 8 | So called keyhole surgery is being hailed as the way most operations will be carried out in the future but only a minority of surgeons can actually do it . |
| 9 | It does not help that the Singapore dollar has been appreciating against not only the greenback but also the currencies of Singapore 's three main trading rivals : Hong Kong , Taiwan and Korea . |
| 10 | By a ‘ goods-specific ’ externality , the important argument in the donor 's utility function is not simply the utility of the recipient but also the quantity of a good ( e.g. health care or education ) consumed by the recipient . |
| 11 | c ) How many liked popcorn but not the sneakers . |
| 12 | It has been argued that the communist utopia is not a scientific prediction but merely a projection of the ‘ wish-images ’ of those who adopt a Marxist position . |
| 13 | From the foregoing sketch one can recognize not only the features of the political culture outlined in the preceding chapter but also the convergence of those features and their interplay with the experience of history . |
| 14 | In chapter 13 the Group suggests that , for pupils taught mainly through the medium of Welsh , the programmes of study but not the attainment targets for English in key stage 2 will need modification , to accommodate the matters , skills and processes which have been included in the English programmes of study for key stage 1 but have been disapplied in respect of such pupils in key stage 1 . |
| 15 | The burden of Mustakimzade 's argument , then , is that Molla Yegan was a mufti but not the Mufti , that he , like any other had the power of and might give fetvas when the need arose , but that he did not attain the office of Mufti . |
| 16 | We were asleep by 8 p-m. but would have to take it in turn to keep guard , not just against the enemy but also the cows ! |
| 17 | ‘ A dour man , ’ Buckingham observed , ‘ with bounding ambition but not the talent to match . ’ |
| 18 | Answer guide : They have no direct effect but often the debtor is the other side of the sales entry . |
| 19 | My question however concerns not accuracy in labelling but rather the means whereby an exhibit of objects might draw on theories of ‘ otherness ’ in order to explore the role of design in the production of identity . |
| 20 | This chameleon quality often leads to misunderstandings between home and school — each blaming the other , when more often than not they are difficult in the one setting but not the other . |
| 21 | A lavish welcome had been laid on by Mr Smith — not just a teddy bear but also a Rolls Royce . |
| 22 | But Speich 's arrow , fired I wo n't say in the dark but certainly the gloom , appeared to have hit its mark . |
| 23 | To make a contribution towards this end requires not only knowledge of alternatives and commitment to putting them into practice but also an understanding of how social policy is made and implemented . |
| 24 | By totalization , therefore , Sartre does not here mean anything like a predetermined end or final closure of a totality but rather a process of mediation among the parts , where each is determined by the other . |
| 25 | This was applied and extended by Sir Robert to safeguard the arrangements for telephone-tapping , even though when a tap is placed there may be no iniquity but only the suspicion of iniquity ; and that entire conversations may be recorded and listened to ‘ when much of the conversations may be highly confidential and untainted by any iniquity ’ . |
| 26 | To that extent — until war eventually came in 1513 , and with it his death — James IV undoubtedly had the best of both worlds , the pleasure but not the pain and the expense . |
| 27 | The housewife is not only a chef but also a washer up , a cleaner , a nanny , a childminder : |
| 28 | Nationalisation of the Bank in 1946 was a grand gesture of socialism in action but not an act which led to the capture of the commanding heights of finance . |
| 29 | The plan worked because in this new environment the young Prince found not only friendship but also the stimulus of intellectual competition . |
| 30 | She had caught the atmosphere of tension but not the substance of the conversation . |